Overshoe.



No. 858,565. I PATENTED JULY 2, 1907.

' N. P. BOWLER.

OVERSHOE.

APPLICATION FILED D110. 11, 1905.

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NOADIAH P. BOWLER,

OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

OVERSHOE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1907.

A li ation fil d December 11, 1905. Serial No. 291,173.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, NOADIAH P. Bowman, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Overshoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention is an improvement on the rubber overshoe which forms the subject matter of Letters Patent No. 736,156, granted to A. E. Roberts on August 11, 1903. It is intended to operate upon the same principle, and it differs from the overshoe of said. prior patent in certain characteristics of construction which make it easier to construct in a practical way without detracting from its efiiciency.

The invention consists of an overshoe having a thickened and non-elastic heel portion and a low thin elastic front portion, combined with a non-elastic cord or wire embedded in the upper, and lying in an inwardly projecting bead on the front part of the upper, and in an external bead on the shank and heel portions of said upper,the ends of said cord being anchored in the inelastic heel portion thereof.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a side view of a rubber embodying the present invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view in the plane indicated by line 22 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view in the plane indicated by line 33 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the parts by letters, A represents the sole of the overshoe,a being the heel portion, and a being the shank portion of said sole.

B represents the upper of the overshoe, of Which b represents the heel portion and b the shank portion thereof. The heel portion b is about as high as the heel of an ordinary rubber, but the front part of the upper, in front of the shank portion, is very low, being only a little higher than the sole of the shoe to which the rubber is fitted, and the shank portion inclines upward from the front portion to the heel portion. The

. front portion and the shank portion of the upper are l toe and back into the heel portion of the upper. This cord or Wire should be substantially non-stretchable. It is embedded in the upper of the rubber, but in the front part of said upper it is so embedded that it practically forms an inwardly projecting bead e which is intended to enter the crease between the sole and upper of the shoe. At about the point where the front portion and shank portion of the upper are merged together, this cord is deflected outward, so that while it remains embedded in the rubber it forms no inwardly projecting bead, but on the contrary forms an outwardly projecting bead. The ends of the cord and also this outwardly projecting bead extend well into the thickened and inelastic heel portion, but do not extend around the heel.

The rubber shown in the Roberts patent, before mentioned, was one difficult to construct, because of the necessity of having an inelastic endless loop going entirely around the rubber. This loop had to be a definite length, and Was substantially useless if its length varied to any substantial extent from the required length.

The ends of the cord in the rubber shown in the drawing are anchored in the inelastic part of the heel, which heel portion between the ends of the cord serves the same purpose as does the corresponding part of the loop in said Roberts overshoe-that is to say, when the shoe is inserted in the overshoe it holds the heel of the overshoe back; and, since it is inelastic, prevents the cord from moving forward, and therefore holds the interior bead a formed by the cord in the crease between the shoe and its upper.

Having described my invention, I claim:

As a new article of manufacture an overshoe having a low front portion, a high heel portion, and intermediate inclined shank portion which merges into the front and heel portions referred to, the front and shank portions of the upper being made of flexible and elastic material, and the heel portion being substantially inelastic, combined with a cord which is embedded in the front part of the upper and forms an inwardly projecting bead, the said cord being deflected outward near the front of the shank portions and being then extended into the inelastic heel portion and being covered by an external bead.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

NOADIAII P. BOWLER.

Witnesses E. B. GILoHnIsT,

E. L. THURSTON. 

